WHEN: this saturday!!! March 15th!! Doors @ 3pm performances, artist talk, music.. till.. well.. at least 8 or 9 but maybe 10 or 11?

LOCATION: Eastern Bloc gallery, 7240 rue Clark, Montreal (metro De Castelnau or 10 minute walk from Jean Talon metro).

Gallery hours from now until saturday are 3pm – 9pm.
don’t forget that all this goodness is also FREEEEE! invite your friends!

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Intimacy in Public Space

Site Specific installations and interventionist works exploring the notions of Intimacy in Public Space through the disciplines of Performance, Dance, Mixed Media, Theater, Visual Arts and New Media.

SEE DETAILS and UPDATES (photos and dates) below or click on the right column for specific dates/events…

Curated by John Naccarato & Sarah Nesbitt

Concordia Campuses, Public Spaces & Eastern Bloc 7240 Clark Metro de Castelneau

SHOW DATES: Feb. 29- Mar. 15, 2008

VERNISSAGE: Saturday, March 15th from 3:00 to 8:00pm @ EASTERN BLOC, 7240 rue Clark – metro De Castelnau…

MEET THE ARTISTS/TALK from 4:00 to 6:00pm

PERFORMANCES from 6pm to 8pm

ALSO DON’T MISS….

electric carnaval électrique

Taking a new media twist on the traditions of 19th-century traveling carnivals,
electric carnaval électrique showcases Montreal student artists working in the domain of video, electronic and interactive art installations, as well as Internet, photography and sound-based art.

Curated by Shereen Soliman

Montreal, February 19th, 2008 – Art Matters, Canada’s largest student-run art festival, in association with Concordia U’s Intermedia/Cyberarts Student Collective proudly presents electric carnaval électrique, organized by first-time curator Shereen Soliman.

Electric carnaval électrique invites the public to peek inside the “circus big top” to reveal a peculiar world of carnivalesque, new media art installations from March 11th to March 15th, 3 p.m. to 9 p.m., at Eastern Bloc gallery, 7240 rue Clark. The artists will be present on the public vernissage Saturday March 15th, from 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.

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Title of Work: Wait

Artist: Vincent Chevaller

Project Type: Performance/Intervention

Description:

wait for an appropriate moment /

disclose your hiv status /

wait /

Location/Dates: EV Building: Mar. 03 – 13, 2008 and Eastern Bloc Mar. 11-16, 2008

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Title of Work: Wizard of Zoop

Artist: Guillaume Boudrias-Plouffe

Project Type: Interventionist Performance

Description:
Hey Kids !!! AstroClown the Superhero Scientist Clown, Yvan the European Gymnastic Instructor and Pow-Wow, Master of Hamster Style Aquatic Kung Fu, invite you to participate in their crazy adventures !!!!!

Location/Dates: EV Building March 3, 2008 – 12:30 – 1:30 pm and at Eastern Bloc Vernissage

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Title of Work: Things Found at the Webster Library Which are Vaguely Depressing to Me

Artist: Anna Wilkinson

Project Type: Intervention/Installation

Description:
Playing with the conventions of museum exhibitions and the traditional curatorial voice, this installation piece narrates the sadness of everyday objects found in Concordia’s Webster Library.

Location/Dates: Library Building – Webster Library, 2nd floor: Mar 3 to Mar. 16

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Title of Work: Positioning Subjectivity

Artist: Mariane Bourcheix-Laporte

Project Type: Performance/Intervention

Description:
The work aims at illustrating the presence of two sets of subjectivities within an individual’s framework. Two video projections (material based on the Rorschach Inkblot Test) interact within the performance.

Location/Dates: EV Building: Tuesday, March 04, 2008 from 10:30 am to 1:30 pm and the Eastern Bloc Vernissage: March 15, 2008

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Title of Work: T H E  H O L  E  T R U T H

Artist: Lauqa Maccaulay

Project Type: Site Specific Installation/Intervention

Description:
bookworms, come burrow into this cozy old paperback: illustrations of insignificance, divulging all molecules and constellations. a treatise on non being, a voidful volume to have on hands (!)

Location/Dates: Le 7ième sablier @ 5372 ave du Parc, coin St-Viateur (corner of St-Viateur on the west side of Parc (80 bus)) (it is a tiny and super-friendly, somewhat pungent-smelling used bookstore) Feb 28 to march 14, 2008

monday to friday 1-7pm
saturday & sunday 12-6pm

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Title of Work: Pink Project

Artist: Marisa Hoick

Project Type: Performance/Intervention/Documentation

Description:
Through documentation and performance, Pink Project explores personal identity as a dancer and interest in the body. As reflected in the temporality of materials; my body won’t last forever

Location/Dates: EV Building: Wednesday, March 05, 2008 from 10:00 am to 11:00 pm and the Eastern Bloc Vernissage: March 15, 2008

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Title of Work: Synonymous

Artist: Juan Ortiz-Apuy

Project Type: Video/Intervention

Description:
Exploring writing as the construction of knowledge and how it is imprinted upon us – often violently and permanently – shaping our sense of ourselves and the world.

Location/Dates: EV Building: Thursday, March 06, 2008 and eastern Bloc March 11-16, 2008

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Title of Work: 5 probable 20 seconds in a run

Artist: Jae Ok Lee

Project Type: Video Performance

Description:
Exploring the notion of probable time as an opposition to absolute time. (Video) The mystery of private running unfolds at a solitary segment of the city.

Location/Dates: EV Building, Concordia University, Montreal – March 05, 2008 – 10:00 am to 5 pm and at Eastern Bloc, March 13 – 16.

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Title of Work: Out of Order

Artist: Michael Bishop

Project Type: Media Intervention

Description:
Out of Order is a work which allows the user to interact with a typeface whose main feature is randomness. “Sense the limits of the letter form: out of randomness; out of order.”

Location/Dates: EV Building, Concordia University, Montreal – Thursday, March 6, 2008 – 10:00 am to 5 pm – Eastern Bloc, March 11 – 16.

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Title of Work: The Sand Paper Princess

Artist: Claudia Chan Tak

Project Type: Performance/Intervention

Description:
A new kind of ballerina: she is noisy, weirdly graceful and available for caress. An interactive intervention, please enjoy!

Location/Dates: EV Building: Tuesday, March 11, 2008 from 10 am to 4 pm.

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Title of Work: Insular Museum Of Fenestral Artifacts

Artist: Anonymous (Artist does not wish his name published due to nature of work)

Project: Installation, Site-Specific Intervention/Documentation

Description: Insular Museum Of Fenestral Artifacts is a clandestine museum located just off the shore of the island of Montreal. It is built from the artifacts that are the focus of the museum’s sole exhibition.

Location/Dates: None disclosed location: off Montreal Island. February 28 – March 16, 2008. Documentations at the Eastern Bloc: March March 11-16, 2008

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Title of Work: Fall Prey

Artists: Choreographer: Metanoiia (Jenn Doan) Interpreters: Forty Nguyen, Lesley Smith, Lea Paranoia, Vanessa Bousquet

Project Type: Dance Site Specific

Description:
in uncontrollable descent, grasping at straws…
fall_two_fall_three_fall_four_…
letting go only to find what is beneath…

Location/Dates: EV Building: Wednesday, March 12, 2008 from 12:30 am to 2:30 pm.

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Title of Work: Look in My Box

Artists: J. Bembridge, A. Alsip, A. Draghici, A. Bukojemsky, C. Deetjen-Woodward, P. Baldion Fischer, K. Nobin, P. Kadowaki, M. Beaulieu

Project Type: Performance/Intervention

Description:
Exploring the sexually explicit landscape using the medium of the peepshow. Six large black boxes will be placed on campus, allowing the public to interact through a peephole with the performers who are situated inside.

Location/Dates: EV Building: Wednesday, March 12, 2008 from 10:00 am to 4:00 pm and the Eastern Bloc Vernissage: March 15, 2008

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Title of Work: The Hypothetical Inside

Artist: Chloe Desjardins

Project Type: Video/Installation

Description:
“Self and subjectivity then are primarily an experience continuously constructed externally and remain open to change…” and that it is through contacts with institutions, artifacts and other subjects that the subject builds itself.

Location/Dates: EV Building: Thursday, March 13, 2008 from 10:00 am to 5:00 pm – Eastern Blo, March 11 to 16, 2008

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